Minehead transhipment building

The main exhibit at the Ball Clay Mining Museum at Norden is this minehead transhipment building. Originally sited at Norden No 7 mine, it was moved and reerrected with new corrugated sheeting and should be open to the public during 2013.

St Saviour’s at Dottery, near Bridport, is the only ‘Tin Tabernacle’ in Dorset in which regular services are still held. The faithful congregation can receive Holy Communion here on alternate Sundays thanks to …Read More »

Corrugated iron was invented and patented in June 1829 by Henry Robinson Palmer, who had worked under Thomas Telford and was now busy designing a new basin in London Docks, the scheme including …Read More »

Tarrant Rushton World War II airfield was a very important base for glider operations such as Operation Neptune on D-Day and Operation Market Garden at Arnhem, as well as for dropping and picking …Read More »

Halfway between Wareham and Corfe Castle, just off Soldiers Road, Arne, stand the Isolation Hospital and Nurses’ Bungalow. They were put up in the early 1900’s and were chosen from the Humphreys of …Read More »